Uranium Recovery from Phosphates for Self-Sufficient Nuclear Power in the Eastern Mediterranean.
In: Science & Technology of Nuclear Installations, 2022-10-18, S. 1-13
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Production of phosphate fertilizers (PF), without uranium recovery, amounts to dispersing uranium compounds on agricultural fields. These compounds are naturally hidden in phosphate rock deposits prior to processing. Such a dispersion is a cumulative environmental damage, that may become rather catastrophic in few hundred years, under the current rates & impurities of phosphate fertilization of agricultural lands. It is also an avoidable irreversible waste of one of the world's major energy resources. This study demonstrates quantitatively the low impact of U costs on the nuclear power generation costs, which happens, so far, to be a main reason for nonrecovery of uranium from the present PF industry. It reports on novel procedures for (i) estimating the required U feed to nuclear power plants (NPPs), (ii) pricing U as a function of its cumulative world production, and (iii) for quantifying U accumulation in phosphate fertilized lands. We also demonstrate that countries of the eastern Mediterranean can, in the long run, become collectively U partially self-sufficient, by recovering U from their phosphate resources, to power 13.2% of their entire electric energy generation contemporary needs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Uranium Recovery from Phosphates for Self-Sufficient Nuclear Power in the Eastern Mediterranean.
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Haidar, Nassar H. S. |
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Zeitschrift: | Science & Technology of Nuclear Installations, 2022-10-18, S. 1-13 |
Veröffentlichung: | 2022 |
Medientyp: | academicJournal |
ISSN: | 1687-6075 (print) |
DOI: | 10.1155/2022/3985408 |
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